Foodstuff for cattle



dump it in a convenient Patented Nov. 30, 1926.

SEWELL M. CORBETT, or THE UNITED sTATEs ARMY.

roons'rnrr ron CATTLE.

R0 Drawln g.

This invention relates to a new and useful food compound for cattle and has for its primary object the production of a nutritious, wholesome and inexpensive stock food, prepared from pineapple residue heretofore discarded as waste material.

Another object of this invention is to provide a cattle food consisting of pineapple residue mixed with other ingredients to increase its bulk and at the same time impart other nutritious properties essential to the roaluction of a scientifically balanced'stock oo In the pineapple industry, after the juice has been expressed from the outside shells, central cores, trimmings, ends and etc. there remains a pulp like mass, which for want of a better name may be defined as waste or residue.

Some canners have further treated this residue for alcohol extraction, while others either cart it away for use as fertilizer or gulch and allow nature to take its course. i

The handling of this material has proved a vexing and a serious problem, because, despite the many presses through which it has been' caused to pass (owing to-the lack of fiber in the pineapple), the pulp still contains from 83% to 90% juice and when allowed to stand quickly ferments, thus attracting myriads of flies, beetles and other insects, which formnot only an annoyance health of the community.

suitable batch is but constitutes an actual menace to the It is therefore the fundamental aim and purpose of this invention-to provide for the consumptionof this residue or waste by subjecting it to carefully controlled temperatures and mixing the resulting product with a pro er balancing ration .to form a stock food or'cattle. r 1

i In carrying this invention into effect a pga'ced in a kiln on rotary converter and s jected to" a temperature sufliciently 'well above boiling to thoroughly dry w. ithoutburnin When-this operation is complete the resulting product when Application filed January 1924. Serial No. esam. I

analyzed wi1l be found to contain the fol- A lowing ingredients and proportions thereof: 56

Another batch similarly treated and subjected to a higher-temperaturedisclosed the following ingredients and proportions there- Sample 2.

Per cent. Water 10.63 Protein v 3.62 Ether extract up-.. 1.01

Invert sugar 11.96 Sucrose 8,70 Starch, etc. (by indifference) 42.15 Fiber 18.23 Ash 3.70 7' -Cornparing the two samples it is evident that the proportions of water, protein, ether extract and etc. ,may be varied at will dependent u on the temperature to which the waste has been subjected.

After the waste or residue has been dried as stated, it is pulverized and then if desirable embodied in the following mixtures in approximately the following proportions,

50% residue, 30% wheat middlings, 10% 35 cocoanut mealor cotton seed meal and 10% tankage, which produces an excellent well balanced ration for cattle. V

In various tests wherein groups of hogs were subjected to the-mixture prepared as above the stock made an average gain of 1.19 pounds per day at a feed 'cost of .099 r pound-gain, thus conclusively demonstrating the value. of this preparation as a food for cattle.

In conclusion it is a parent/ this invention upon the exigencies of the situation, and provides a food stufior cattle which is not such alterations in the com und may be only m'expenslve end highly nutritious, but resorted to within the scope 0 the appended 15 also furnishes an avenue for the conservation claim without de arti'ng' from or sacrificing 5 of a product which otherwise would be disan of the rinclples of this invention.

cardedas waste material, f Having escribed my invention, what I Although in the fore oing certain inclaim as new and wish to 'secureby Letters gredients such as wheat m1dd11ngs,etc.,have Patent is: i 7 A 20 been referred to as used in 601111606011 with An animal roduct comprising dried pineapple residue, it i'scto be understood that pineapple residue.

' the residue may be used alone or with vag rious other nutritious ingredients, depending SEWELL M. CORBETT. 

